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Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

From:  Rusty Russell <rusty-AT-rustcorp.com.au>
To:  Mimi Zohar <zohar-AT-linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject:  Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd
Date:  Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:20:39 +0930
Message-ID:  <878vbl1ss0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc:  Kees Cook <keescook-AT-chromium.org>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn-AT-canonical.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd-AT-arndb.de>, James Morris <james.l.morris-AT-oracle.com>, Al Viro <viro-AT-zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Eric Paris <eparis-AT-redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina-AT-suse.cz>, linux-security-module-AT-vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Why?  Not only have you had these patches sitting for a while, way
> before you had the kernel module patches, they've been acked/signed off
> by Kees, Serge, Eric, and myself.  All security subtree maintainers.
> The module patches could have easily been built on top of Kees' small
> patches.  I am really disappointed!

Me too.

Linus' merge window opened on Monday 1-10-2012.  One week before that
was Monday 24-09-2012, which is the nominal close of my merge window.

The patches were sent on 21-09 (Friday for you, the weekend my time).

If I had nothing else to do on Monday, I would have applied it, but we
spent the week trying to get the module signing patches into shape :(

If I take them now, they need to go through linux-next.  That won't
happen until Monday.  I want two days in linux-next, so that people who
test linux-next get a chance to find issues, so that's Wednesday before
I send to Linus, which is getting very late into the merge window.

And keep adding two days for every trivial issue which is found :(

It's in my modules-wip branch for 3.8.

Cheers,
Rusty.

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